Louisville CEO Dan Caruso attended a Rose Garden ceremony today in Washington in the signing of the Jobs Act.

WASHINGTON — A Louisville CEO who furnishes bandwidth stood with President Obama in a Rose Garden signing today of the Jobs Act.

Dan Caruso, CEO of Zayo Group, stood in the small cluster of people directly behind the president earlier today. Caruso’s company provides bandwidth, among other things, to wireless providers.

The White House touts the Jobs Act as helpful to small businesses and startups, in particular, because it makes it easier for companies to go public.

It also lets small-time investors[2] and regular people give money to start-up companies. Previous rules made it hard for just a regular guy on the street to invest in a new idea. Sen. Michael Bennet[3] authored this provision in the U.S. Senate.

The White House chose a select group of about 200 small and medium sized company leaders to join him in the bill signing and speech earlier today. In addition to Caruso, Lynn Jurich, CEO of solar company SunRun and John Belizare, CEO of FirstBest SYSTEMS Inc., attended. Both have employees in Colorado.

In the speech before the signing, Obama said he was happy to get the law on the books because the country is made up of “doers.”

“We think big. We take risks. And we believe that anyone with a solid plan and a willingness to work hard can turn even the most improbable idea into a successful business,” he said. “So ours is a legacy of Edisons and Graham Bells, Fords and Boeings, of Googles and of Twitters. This is a country that’s always been on the cutting edge.”